Az Idegen Nyelvi Részleg könyvajánlója - 2008. április

Alexander McCall Smith: The Sunday Philosophy Club

In his new mystery series, Alexander McCall Smith has moved a long way from his comfort zone --- nearly 6,000 miles in fact, a number that represents the distance from Gaborone, Botswana to Edinburgh, Scotland. Botswana, as many readers surely know, is the setting for Smith's immensely popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series while Edinburgh is home to Smith's latest undertaking, THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB, billed as an "Isabel Dalhousie mystery."
Isabel Dalhousie, a quiet woman of independent means and a certain age, seems an unlikely gumshoe. As the editor of The Review of Applied Ethics, Isabel would seem more at home in a university philosophy department than dealing with the sordid details of murder most foul. But we, as Isabel would certainly agree, do not always choose our circumstances; at times they choose us.
In Isabel's case, circumstances cause her to witness an unfortunate death, a young man's fall from a symphony hall balcony. "Her first thought, curiously, was of Auden's poem on the fall of Icarus. Such events, said Auden, occur against a background of people going about their ordinary business. They do not look up and see the boy falling from the sky. I was talking to a friend, she thought. I was talking to a friend and the boy fell out of the sky." Isabel decides she has a moral duty to investigate the circumstances of the young man's death, being as she would have been the last person he saw before his death.

Alexander McCall Smith: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white van and a bicycle, and by a spectacular disagreement between her assistant, Mma Makutsi, and one of the apprentices at the garage. This apprentice has found a fancy girlfriend who drives a Mercedes-Benz. How can he be rescued from his folly? And as for Mma Makutsi, she has found a dancing class, and a man who may not be able to dance very well, but who admires her greatly. And all of this happens against a background of quiet sessions of bush tea, and of a land that stretches out forever under mile upon mile of empty sky. . .

 

Alexander McCall Smith: Tears of the Giraffe

The second book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
Following on from the brilliant The No.1 Ladies' Detective agency Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective.
It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Precious to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari. And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of matters closer to home to concern her: her highly talented secretary, Mma Makutsi, eager to be promoted to detective; the unscrupulous maid of her husband-to-be, the wonderful Mr J.L.B. Matekoni; and the sudden - and unexpected - increase in her family by not one, but two.

 

 

Megszólalni 1 hónap alatt - Angol
Utazni készülsz? Élvezetesebbé szeretnéd tenni a nyaralást? Hódítani szeretnél? Tanulj nyelveket a Pons kiadványokból és szólalj meg bátran!
A rövid leckékkel naponta kb. 15 perc nyelvtanulással megtanulsz köszönni, kérni, udvarolni stb.
H a csak a túlélõszókincset tanulod meg, már akkor sokat megértesz.
Nyelvtani feladatokkal tökéletesítheted a nyelvhelyességed.
Az Audio-CD segítségével történeteket és a szavak kiejtését hallgathatod meg.
A könyv tele van kulturális információkkal, mellyel jobban megismered az országot.
Í gy ezzel a könyvvel a táskádban biztos, hogy jobban élvezed majd az utazást.